Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and their colleagues have played down the importance of the Abraham Accords while effectively restoring an appeasement-based foreign policy. 

On Sunday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid hosted outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Jerusalem for a farewell visit. Although Israel's media and foreign policy elites have long presented Merkel as a friend of Israel, for much of her 16-year tenure in office, she has advanced anti-Israel and even anti-Jewish policies. Under her leadership, Germany has given more money to anti-Israel political groups, including groups involved in boycotting Israel, than any other EU-member government. 

Then too, with Merkel at the helm, Germany has voted lockstep with the Palestinians on virtually every anti-Israel measure at the United Nations.

Then there is Iran. Since she entered office in 2005, Merkel has assiduously maintained Germany's position as Iran's largest trading partner in Europe. 
She has opposed sanctions and backed her colleagues as they made light of Iran's human rights violations, its nuclear proliferation and sponsorship of terrorism.

Merkel led the EU's opposition to then-President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the nuclear deal in 2018. 

Despite Merkel's commitment to policies that caused it strategic harm, Israel went out of its way to pretend she was a "friend." 

In his remarks at the Knesset event marking the anniversary of the Abraham Accords, Opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "So long as they said you can't make peace with the Arab world without peace with the Palestinians, we couldn't make peace. We broke the Palestinian veto and brought four historic peace agreements, the Abraham Accords."

Who were "they" who insisted on giving the Palestinians veto power over Arab-Israeli peace? Among others, "they" were Merkel and her colleagues in the EU and the Democrats, who also boycotted the White House signing ceremony. 

This brings us to Lapid and Bennett, who slobbered over Merkel on Sunday. The Lapid-Bennett government has an uneasy relationship with the Abraham Accords for two reasons. First, they don't like the deals because their nemesis Netanyahu made them. And second, most members of the government, which is controlled by leftists and the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Islamist party, want to give the Palestinians their veto back.

Last year Israel had a reality-based foreign policy. It was predicated on the basic truth that the justice of Israel's existence and power is immutable. That foreign policy ended the Palestinian veto and brought four robust peace agreements with Arab states. Now Israel has a reality- denying foreign policy which is reinstating the Palestinian veto and glorifying Israel's enemies.